Our last day was fairly relaxed. Our flight from Launceston was not until 10:20am and the hotel was only under 10 minutes away. We packed the bulk of our bags the night before, and had a cruisy...
Bath and Bubbles
A bath and a glass of bubbles is how today ended… Let’s start at the beginning. We had breakfast in our apartment before heading our and traveling up the western side of the Tamar River. Our first...
Monkeys and More Markets
After a good nights sleep, we got up, had showers and drove to town to the Grand Chancellor Hotel for their buffet breakfast. It was very good and we were both pleasantly full when we left.A short...
The Market and the Mall
Every Saturday the Launceston Harvest Market is on in the centre of town. I had planned on getting the bus, but a look at the Metro app told me the busses were an hour apart on the weekend 🙁 so...
Ambling Back to Launceston.
Today we head back to Launceston. The trip up the main highway is only about 200kms but I planned to wind our way in off the highway and look at some of the small historic towns we have not seen...
A Little Further Afield
Today we drove a little west to revisit places we had been before. Sadly, things change and sometimes not for the best 🙁 Our first stop was the Salmon Ponds. We have been here a few times and it is...
Let them eat…everything!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! We got up this morning after a very comfortable nights sleep. A light breakfast was in order today, as today is our visit to the “Taste” festival. We caught the bus to town, had a...
Lake St Clair to Hobart
After a relaxing night in our Wilderness Cabin, we got up and ready early for a 7:00am breakfast. We decided to go for a walk around the lodge park and have a look at Lake St Clair. I could see...
A Day in the Wilderness
We had breakfast and packed up the car ready to leave for the Wilderness Railway. Before we left, I made sure to suitably clean the unit so as not to get a $50 charge 😀 We arrived at Regatta Point...
Sunday – Rest Day
They say Sunday is a day of rest, and that is what we had planned :). A whole lot of nothing. One of the reasons for revisiting Strahan is to ride on the Wilderness Railway, but it does not run on a...
A Big Drive Day
Today was one of our longest drive days at 184 kms. Although Google maps might say 2 and a half hours, we knew that it would take a lot longer than that.We had breakfast in our motel room, loaded...
Cheese, Chocolate and Murals
We had a good night’s sleep and did actually have bit of a sleep in, not waking until just after 5:00am. 🙂 After hot showers and poached eggs for breakfast we packed up the car, checked out, and...
Off We Go!!
And we are off:) After a lovely Christmas Day lunch with family, we had a quiet night, finalised packing and we were ready to go. We still did not have a sleep in 🙁 (Up at 4:30 am as usual) We had...
Ready for a Christmas break in Tasmania 2024 -2025
A couple of months ago, I asked M where we wanted to go for our Christmas break this year. The way Christmas falls this year means we will close up work on Friday the 20th and will open back up on...
We Did It!!!
Apologies for this post being so long after the last one.We had a lovely couple of days in Hobart. After looking at the house on Thursday, we spent Friday looking at some other houses I had in my...
Exciting and Frustrating Day – 13th April 2023
Today is an exciting day. We may hear that the sale of the land is unconditional, we are viewing the house we hope to buy and all being well signing a new contract for sale. We met the agents at the...
Hobart Fly Day – 12th April 2023
We left the hotel early to put the car into the secure parking at the airport. From there it is a short bus trip to the terminal. We checked our suitcases in and headed for the Virgin Lounge for...
Day 14 – 8th January 2022
We were due to depart Hobart at 12:45pm, so we asked the hotel if we could have a later checkout than 10:00. We were told it was no problem to stay until 11:00 Finished packing, went across to...
Day 13 – 7th January 2022
Another cloudy, drizzly day today. 🙁 We got up and had a shower, then tried to make a cup of tea and found we had no power? The room lights were working but no power. I spoke to one of the cleaning...
Day 12 – 6th January 2022
We awoke to another cloudy day with the threat of rain highly likely. We decided to not go far and run the risk of getting too wet. We had another $50 meal voucher left from our Christmas present,...
Day 11 – 5th January 2022
Another sightseeing day today and a light breakfast as this was to be an “eating day” Firstly we headed to Richmond and the famous bakery. I chose an apricot tart and hubby had a lamington with...
Day 10 – 4th January 2022
Today was an exciting day as we are meeting with our builder. Paul from Construction4U had been in touch and we arranged to meet later in the afternoon.In the morning we decided to go for a drive...
Day 9 – 3rd January 2022
Nothing planned for today as it is a public holiday and not much is open. We spent the morning reading a doing “nothing” - after all, we are on holiday 🙂 Such at the pub was deemed a good idea, so...
Day 8 – 2nd January 2022
Every Sunday, Hobart has a Farmers Market in the CBD. We decided to get the bus to the city and have a look around. It was a quick 20 minute trip on the bus from the Shoreline shops to the...
Day 7 – 1st January 2022
A quiet day of sightseeing today. We decided to head south along the Huon River. It is a lovely pretty river with rolling hills and large orchards. We arrived at Franklin at around lunchtime, and...
Day 6 – 31st December 2021
New Years Eve 2021. We hope that this year will be the last of the pandemic and we can get back to a “normal” life (whatever that means) I do wonder if we will ever have a “pre CoVid”...
Day 5 – 30th December 2021
We both slept well and woke around 5:30am. We had some of the pastries for breakfast with a cup of tea, packed our bags back up and drove the short distance up the road to see the Country Club...
Day 4 – 29th December 2021
Today we head to Launceston for a night away. We had not planned to do this when I originally booked this trip, but the Tasmanian Government were kindly giving away tourism dollars for Qld, SA...
Day 3 – Tuesday 28th December 2021
We both slept very well last night. After breakfast, we decided to drive back to the land and have another look at the view with the sun behind us. ( much easier to take photos 🙂 ) I...
Day 2 – Monday 27th December 2021
Neither of us had a great nights sleep, probably due to not being in our own beds and not wanting to sleep in. After having a really nice shower and breakfast, we drove to the airport parking and...
Day 1 – Sunday 26th December 2021
We started Boxing Day with a relaxing sleep in before a final check of our packing lists. I had booked a motel room near Brisbane airport for the night as we had an 8:15 am flight. With...
Tasmania here we come…again 🙂
It has been a while since we have travelled to Tasmania. CoVid19 put a stop to many people's travel plans our's included. We have missed a number of family occasions and travel has been almost...
Tasmania 2005
We decided to see Tasmania in winter 2005We enjoy the cold and we certainly got cold.We had a great trip and it proved to be the first of many Tassie trips.
Day 15: Going Home 🙁
Awoke to find a light frost on the ground. It still wasn’t cold though. We did a final check of the vehicle before heading to the airport and heading home. Our flight took off on time at 12:15pm We...
Day 14: Berridale to Richmond to Barilla.
Awoke to another mild morning, we have now given up on the off chance that it is cold in Tasmania. We have decided it is a ploy to keep the Queenslanders away!! We headed up to Richmond. Richmond is...
Day 13 Heimat to Berridale
We got up and had a lovely shower in the 5-star bathroom that are Heimat Chalets Ensuite Sites. We then headed toward Hobart and pulled into the Treasure Island Caravan Park at Berridale. The lady...
Day 12: Snug to Russell Falls and New Norfolk
Got up this morning and wandered over to the beach. Snug is a pretty little town on the banks of North West Bay. The caravan park is very nice. They are adding extra self-contained cabins and are in...
Day 11: Barilla to Tahune Airwalk and on to Snug.
Woke up to 2ºc this morning. We discovered how deeply Mick slept as, when he got out of bed, he found our dozen eggs!! There were none broken, not even the box was squashed. We have been putting our...
Day 10: Seven Mile Beach to Port Arthur to Barilla.(Hobart)
Slept in this morning. (Probably due to a big day yesterday??) We had breakfast and headed into Sorell to look for a Woolworths, did the shopping and headed off for the 68km drive to Port Arthur. We...
Day 9: Bicheno to Freycinet to Swansea to Sorell to Seven Mile Beach.
Waking up at Bicheno we had a good hearty omelette before heading down to Coles Bay and the Freycinet Peninsula to climb to the Wineglass Bay lookout. This is a fairly steep walk up the side of the...
Day 8: Scottsdale to Bicheno
Lesson 1: Bush camping in Tasmania, while cheap, is STUPID!!! Not having a powered site meant that we could not use our fan heater. Consequently, the van was cold when we went to bed and we could...
Day 7: Deloraine to Launceston and the Tamar Valley to Scottsdale
WOW!!!! Finally our first cold morning. We woke to frost on the ground and ice on the windscreen. –2ºc at 7:30am. We proved our heater was working well, the temp inside the van at 7:30am was 10ºc....
Day 6: July 7th Turners Beach –Forth- Wilmot- Railton – Sheffield – La Trobe – Deloraine.
Awoke early and it was cold!! 6ºc at 6:00am, 7ºc at 7:00am. No wind or rain though. We had our showers and headed off for Forth at about 7:30am. We followed the Letterbox Trail to Wilmot. Many of...
Day 5: July 6th – Wynyard to Smithton and back to Turners Beach.
Left Wynyard at 8:00am and drove to Lacrum Dairy at Mella via Smithton. The Lacrum dairy advertised Cheese tasting and dairy, unfortunately, they are not open from May until November :(. Back the...
Day 4 – July 5th – Zeehan to Cradle Mountain and Wynyard.
Another big sleep in and we were on the road at 9:00am. Heading into Zeehan we stopped at the Heritage Mining Museum. This was a very good display of the history of Zeehan and its surrounds in its...
Day 3 – July 4th Strahan to Zeehan
Day 3: Strahan (Gordon River cruise) to Zeehan We had a big sleep-in today (6:00pm!!) Had breakfast and showers at the amenities block and “hit the road”. We drove into the township of...
Day 2: July 3rd Heimat Chalet to Strahan.
Had a good night’s sleep for the first night. The van bed was nice and cosy and not cold at all. I woke up at some stage through the night because the wind was very strong and was rocking the...
Tasmania 2005 -Day 1: Saturday July 2nd Dicky Beach to Hobart and New Norfolk.
Day 1: Saturday July 2nd Dicky Beach to Hobart and New Norfolk. Left Dicky Beach at 7:00am with Graham our chauffeur from Quick Silver limousines. Driving to Brisbane, we encountered VERY...